Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women

Name: Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
Director: Rachel Talbot
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Released: 2007-06-16
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Cast: Anne Beatts, Fanny Brice, Tovah Feldshuh, Fyvush Finkel, Garry Giddens

2007

1h 25m

Documentary Comedy

Director: Rachel Talbot

Overview

A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and gender. The film profiles Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein, as well as contemporary comedians Judy Gold and Jackie Hoffman.